noun. A portable shelter made of fabric or other material stretched over a supporting framework of poles and usually stabilized or secured to the ground with cords and stakes.

noun. Something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline.

intransitive verb. To camp in a tent.

intransitive verb. To form a tent over.

intransitive verb. To supply with or put up in tents.

noun. A small cylindrical plug of lint or gauze used to keep open or probe a wound or an orifice.

transitive verb. To keep (a wound or orifice) open with such a plug.

transitive verb. To pay heed to.

transitive verb. To attend; wait on.

To pitch one's tent; live in or as in a tent.

To try; test.

To probe; sound.

To apply a tent or pledget to; keep open with a tent.

To tempt. See tempt.

noun. A covering or shelter, or a portable lodge, made of some flexible material, as skins, coarse cloth, or canvas, supported by one or more poles, and stretched by means of cords secured to tent-pegs, or in some other way.

noun. A habitation; a dwelling.

noun. A. raised wooden box or platform set up in the open air, from which clergymen formerly used to preach when the hearers were too numerous to be accommodated within doors: still sometimes used.

noun. An apparatus used in field-photography as a substitute for the dark room.

noun. A probe.

noun. In surgery, a piece of some fabric, bunch of horsehairs or threads, or small cylinder of sponge, laminaria, or other substance introduced into some opening, either natural (as the cervical canal of the uterus) or artificial (as a wound), to keep it open or increase its caliber.

To stretch, as cloth.

noun. Heed; care; notice; attention: usually in the phrase to take tent.

noun. Intent; purpose.

To take heed; be careful: generally with to.

To observe; take note of; give heed to.

To attend; tend upon; take care of.

noun. The web of a colony of tent-caterpillars.

noun. A tent-shaped cover.

noun. A kind of wine of a deep-red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain, much used as a sacramental wine. Also tent-wine.

noun. Attention; regard, care.

noun. Intention; design.

noun. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

transitive verb. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

transitive verb. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent. Used also figuratively.

noun. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.

noun. A probe for searching a wound.

intransitive verb. To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.

noun. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.

noun. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

noun. a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.

noun. any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.

verb. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.

noun. Attention; regard, care.

noun. Intention; design.

noun. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.

noun. A probe for searching a wound.

verb. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

noun. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering persons from the weather.

noun. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

verb. To go camping.

"It is quite an agreeable change to see a leaden sky and hear the rain softly pattering on the tent roof, after many days of sweltering, dazzling heat, _when one is in a comfortable tent_."

a-tent  bell tent  camp  dark tent  hospital tent  

fold one's tent  tented  tenting  

dwell  inhabit  live  populate  web  

Bendt  Brent  Gent  Ghent  Kent  

bag  bed  blanket  boat  building  

A-tent  Ace bandage  Band-Aid  adhesive tape  application  

tent wine  tinta  

tentatively  tented  tenting  tents